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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 1976601, member: 5833&quot;]Does your friend remember how/where acquired?&nbsp; Antiquities are such a minefield.&nbsp; Look how long the Met Museum had the Egyptian cat with a gold earring as their icon before discovering it&#039;s a fake.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the arguments for the authenticity of the several Roman glass intaglios I have is that to fake them would involve too much work for too little profit when there were lots of genuine pieces on the market at the time when they were set.</p><p><br /></p><p>But reproductions, looking appropriately ancient, have been big business for a very long time, some of them made using molds taken from genuine pieces.&nbsp; Even experts, when they only have pix to go by, frequently (in my experience, more often than not) shake their heads &amp; say they cannot tell.</p><p><br /></p><p>The bead shape is distinctive.*&nbsp; Have you noodled around in Roman clay beads to look for the shape?</p><p><br /></p><p>For the batch you just posted, you might want to look at &#039;white heart beads&#039;, if they really are white inside.</p><p><br /></p><p>*Try &#039;bicone&#039; for the shape.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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